Italy: The Fall and Rise of Silvio Berlusconi

Rocco Buttiglione puffs on his toscano cigar and recalls the first time he ever met
Silvio Berlusconi. "It was in 1978," says the philosophy professor and leader of the
center-right Christian Democratic Union. "He was just moving into the TV
business and thought he had to learn more about Italian society and politics. So
he asked me to give him some classes on democracy and government. His
approach surprised me, but it is the very image of Berlusconi  he is a man
capable of learning and eager to learn." Full Story...